Thanks Bob Lee!! At 09:05 PM 4/11/98 -0500, angelina lee wrote: >Greeting to all astute silver makers and users, > > A friend of mine asked,"How much silver is in that spoon of CS." Told >him I didn`t know ,but would calculate it for him. This is what I did >and you can too. This is going to be technical but try it any way, your >probably smarter than you thought. > > We will start buy determining what a *chemical equivalent* is. > > The chemical equivalent is the atomic weight of an element divided by >its valence number. That will be (w)/ (z). > atomic weight =w > valence no. =z > Look at this Table: > atomic weight in grams valence number > Cu copper 63.57 +2 > Ag silver 107.88 +1 > Au gold 196.97 +1 > > This will give us : > Cu copper 63.57/2 =31.785 ( one chemical equivalent) > Ag silver 107.88/1 =107.88 ( one chemical equivalent) > Au gold 196.97/1 =196.97 ( one chemical equivalent) > > The quantity of electricity to liberate *one chemical equivalent* of >a substance can be found this way.
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